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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: SMIE grammar for C-style function expressions
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:45:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4ka4o83h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a2653a2-cac1-3b15-e749-a799baa97dbb@gmail.com> (Nikolay Kudryavtsev's message of "Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:12:11 +0300")

> I see. I was aware of this option, but letting anything happen in the middle
> of statements for which we know the proper grammar just feels intuitively
> wrong to me,

;-)

This design decision is at the core of SMIE.  I won't argue that it can
be odd at first (and limiting at times), but it is the key design
element that allows the system to work reasonably well despite
its simplicity.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-27 14:39 SMIE grammar for C-style function expressions Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-09-27 18:41 ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-09-27 19:36   ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-09-28  2:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-28 11:47   ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-09-28 13:07     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-28 18:12       ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-09-28 18:45         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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